Adam-12
Operation Action
TV Flash files “Operation Action” as hour 170 of 174 in the TV Flash guide — Adam-12 (1968–1975) on NBC, season 7, episode 20, aired 1975-03-25, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S07E20: listed hour 170 of 174 in the Adam-12 guide, hour 20 of 24 in season 7. It aired 1975-03-25 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Suicide” (S07E19). Next is “Gus Corbin” (S07E21).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Three drug runners kidnap Malloy after his shift, holding him hostage in exchange for the police dropping charges against their associate. Reed leads an investigation and rescue effort, using a key clue Malloy had dropped to the dispatcher.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Operation Action sit in the Adam-12 guide?
S07E20 is listed hour 170 of 174 — hour 20 of 24 in season 7, season 7 episode 20.
When did Adam-12 S07E20 air?
Operation Action aired 1975-03-25 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Do I need Dragnet first?
No. Mark VII sister spirit, not a sequel. Adam-12 is two-man patrol television: Malloy, Reed, and the next call.
In the series
Why this series still plays
One-Adam-12: Malloy and Reed on patrol in a black-and-white unit while Jack Webb keeps the moral grammar tight. Ride-along procedural before every badge show learned the radio-code poetry. Two officers closing the shift, case by case, with the calm of a training film that became a hit.
The black-and-white unit arrives before the siren. NBC, 1968–1975: Martin Milner's Officer Pete Malloy and Kent McCord's Officer Jim Reed in a patrol car that defined the two-man format, Jack Webb and R.A. Cinader's Mark VII shop keeping the moral grammar tight. Adam-12 is sister spirit to Dragnet: real LAPD consultation, radio-code poetry, shift-by-shift calls with by-the-book ethics. *Black-and-white paint as a silhouette, radio as jewelry, training-film calm as a press strategy.* Style is the plot. One-Adam-12…
Filed against
- Martin Milner as Officer Pete Malloy
Martin Milner’s Tod Stiles put a Corvette on actual American pavement in Route 66 — location drama when most series never left the lot — then patrolled Adam-12 as Malloy with Jack Webb’s moral grammar tight. Highway as character;…
- Kent McCord as Officer Jim Reed
Kent McCord's Officer Jim Reed made Adam-12 a ride-along before every badge show learned radio-code poetry — Malloy and Reed in a black-and-white unit, Jack Webb's moral grammar, case by case, shift by shift. TV Flash files him as 1970s…